

It was just a test. I didn’t know it had internet access, I just connected it up to the internet how was I supposed to know?
Essentially OpenAI’s defense every time one of their AI does something that was instructed to do, but turned out to be illegal.

I don’t understand people who just let the AI loose on their system and don’t have any safeguards in place. At the very minimum it shouldn’t have admin access and should be limited to just the project folders. Also back up the project folders to another location the AI doesn’t have access to.
Really basic digital hygiene is all that’s needed, and yet there are constantly stories about idiots having their entire hard drives wiped.